Desalination is the removal of the salt and impurities from seawater so it can produce fresh drinking water. It happens naturally every day by the water cycle that evaporates from the sea leaving the salt behind. The fresh water vaporizes to form clouds, it then falls as rain. The Victoria’s Desalination Plant uses a process called Reverse Osmosis, which is a filtering process. The way this process works is when the seawater is pumped into the desalination plant. From the ocean it passes through two levels of initial filtration to remove most of the large and small particles. The filtered seawater then enters into the osmosis plant. So roughly around 40% the water that goes through the desalination plant comes out as fresh drinking water. The other 60% that’s left would be pumped back into the ocean. This water cycle is monitored to make sure that our environment is not harmed in any way.
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